OluKai Junior Editor, Content & Performance

Who We Are

At OluKai, we build premium products for the ocean lifestyle. Our footwear is created using the highest quality materials and crafted into beautiful, functional and incredibly comfortable designs that reflect the spirit of the ocean lifestyle we all enjoy.

We are committed to creating quality products for our customers while leaving the smallest footprint possible on the planet. Our company philosophy is to be environmentally responsible as manufacturers and to pledge OluKai to actively support and work for a clean environment and a better quality of life.

Our customers and staff embody the connection that exists between people and the ocean, it is our Culture. We want to build a team of individuals who embrace this culture and have a passion for providing premium products and service to our customers.

About the Role

OluKai is seeking a creative, fast-moving Junior Editor, Content & Performance to join our in-house creative team.

Reporting to the Content Studio Manager, this role will focus primarily on editing high-performing video content across paid media, organic social, UGC, and digital platforms. The ideal candidate understands how to turn raw footage, campaign assets, and existing long-form content into engaging short-form creative built for today's digital audience.

A major focus of this role will be supporting OluKai's growing performance creative needs. Developing and versioning performance ads, UGC-style content, product-focused creative, and other paid social assets. This person will also help extend our YouTube content into short-form organic social, identifying compelling moments and turning them into platform-native edits for Instagram, TikTok, YouTube Shorts, and other channels.

This is a hands-on editing role for someone who has strong creative instincts, moves quickly, stays organized, and wants to develop their craft within a growing in-house content team.

What You’ll Do (Responsibilities include, but are not limited to)

• Edit performance-focused video content for Meta and other paid digital platforms, including product ads, UGC-style creative, campaign cutdowns, and short-form advertising.
• Create multiple hooks, cutdowns, messaging variations, aspect ratios, and iterations of paid creative to support ongoing performance testing.
• Partner with the Creative Leads from a Content and Strategy side to translate creative direction and performance insights into new video executions.
• Turn OluKai's YouTube content into compelling short-form organic content for Instagram Reels, TikTok, YouTube Shorts, and other social platforms.
• Identify strong moments, hooks, stories, and soundbites within longer-form content that can live independently as engaging social creative.
• Edit existing campaign and production footage into additional social, paid, product, and digital assets.
• Work with UGC and creator footage to create content that feels native to social platforms while remaining consistent with the OluKai brand.
• Apply strong editing fundamentals including pacing, shot selection, music, sound design, basic color correction, typography, captions, and simple motion graphics.
• Resize and adapt creative across multiple platforms, placements, and aspect ratios.
• Help organize and maintain OluKai's growing library of video assets across internal drives, including footage, selects, project files, exports, and archived productions.
• Maintain clean and consistent project structures so footage and creative assets can be easily accessed by the broader Content and Creative teams.
• Manage multiple edits simultaneously and deliver against fast-moving social and paid-media timelines.
• Stay current on emerging social formats, editing styles, platform trends, performance creative, and creator/UGC best practices.
• Collaborate with the broader Creative, Social, Growth, Brand, and Marketing teams as needed.

Experience and Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing, or a related field
• 2-4 years of professional video editing experience within an in-house creative team,

  agency, production company, freelance environment, or similar setting.

• Strong proficiency in Davinci Resolve.
• Working knowledge of After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, Figma, and the Adobe Creative Suite.
• Strong understanding of short-form video storytelling, pacing, hooks, composition, music, and sound design.
• Experience editing content for Meta, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and other digital platforms.
• Understanding of how paid social creative differs from traditional brand content, including the importance of hooks, messaging, pacing, testing, and iteration.
• Experience working with UGC or creator-style content is strongly preferred.
• Ability to take creative direction and translate feedback into polished work quickly.
• Strong organizational skills, particularly around project files, footage, asset management, and post-production workflows.
• Comfortable managing multiple projects and deadlines simultaneously.
• Collaborative, proactive, curious, and eager to continue developing as an editor and creative.
• Actively seeks out AI-enabled tools and emerging technologies, adapting quickly to leverage them for improved productivity, deeper insights, and more effective processes, while exercising sound judgment and maintaining compliance with organizational standards
• Passion for the OluKai brand, ocean lifestyle, storytelling, and digital culture.

Nice to Have

• Experience working with performance marketing teams and iterating creative based on

  results.

• Familiarity with emerging AI-assisted editing and content creation tools.
• Experience working with YouTube content and repurposing long-form storytelling into

  short-form social.

Location & Office Structure:This is an in-office hybrid position, mandatory 4 days per week in office in Irvine, CA with the option to work from home 1 day per week. Subject to change without notice as per company guidelines.

Compensation:The salary range for this position is $70,000 - $80,000 plus opportunity for annual bonus; salary is based on the experience that you bring to the position.

Benefits and Perks:

• Complimentary chef prepared breakfast and lunch provided Monday - Thursday
• Generous product gift program and all brand discounts
• Company bonus program
• 5 year and 10 year Anniversary gifts to Hawaii and other desirable destinations
• Medical, Dental, Vision insurance in accordance with plan guidelines
• Company paid life insurance
• 401k with employer match in accordance with plan guidelines
• 15 Days of PTO plus one additional day of PTO every year on your anniversary and 3 Floating Holidays per year
• Paid beach and giveback days, bi annual team building events and other in person celebrations
• Work with talented and great people who share a love of the ocean lifestyle
• OluKai is a Certified B Corporation with paid company service days
• Dog friendly office

Archipelago Companies values a diverse, inclusive, and entrepreneurial workforce and culture, and we provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and employees. All qualified applicants for employment will be considered without regard to an individual’s race, color, sex, gender identity, gender expression, religion, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, physical or mental disability, medical condition, family care status, marital status, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, genetic information, military or veteran status, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local laws. If you are unable to submit your application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at [email protected]. Archipelago will reasonably accommodate qualified individuals with disabilities to the extent required by applicable law.